Are you one of these crabs?
Once upon a time, there were three bucket of crabs that were brought in a ship. One bucket was filled with Malay crabs, second buckets was filled with Chinese crabs and the third bucket was filled with Tamil crabs. The first and second bucket containing Malays and Chinese crabs were closed, but the third one was open, this bucket which was filled with Tamil crabs need not to be closed.
One of the fisherman asked another man about why these two buckets were closed and third one was open? And the answer goes like this:
1. The first Malay crabs bucket was closed because they will escape by pushing one of them by many. This escaped crab than shall rescue another who was pushed by the rest of remaining.
2. The second bucket needed to be close too. If you leave it open, the chinese crabs will escape by giving hand to another chinese crab. They will escape by creating hand chain cause they depend on the their own community.
3. Now the third bucket you don't have to close it because if one Tamil crab tried to escape, the other Tamil crab will pull him down.
This is not the works of the author but something he wished to share.
Comments for Tamil Crab Folk Tale. How tamils stop others from succeeding
Sashigan Y.
May 29 2012 @ 08:14 am
not an original post saw this somewhere with ants being used...
Einthusan V. [ ADMIN ]
May 29 2012 @ 12:53 pm
Yes the author mentions this is not his own original work, if you read the note at the bottom, it is stated there.
Vithusan V. [ PREMIUM USER ]
Jun 26 2012 @ 02:19 pm
Excellent Example of Tamils!
Karthik S. [ PREMIUM USER ]
Aug 12 2012 @ 11:07 pm
Is this supposed to be a joke?
Einthusan V. [ ADMIN ]
Aug 12 2012 @ 11:15 pm
Actually, this is a folk tale.. like your parents would of heard this kind of story when they were young.
Karthik S. [ PREMIUM USER ]
Aug 25 2012 @ 10:04 pm
Interesting, there was a similar concept about Canadians in this week's Toronto star!!!
Pasu S.
Nov 03 2012 @ 06:41 am
In1960s israeli r claver not fight beween thèm in thé end . but currently tamils are .when pigs fight no1 knows.wen lion fight it will come to surface in future we ll learn lesen
Senthilrajan R.
Nov 03 2012 @ 01:30 pm
This has nothing to do with tamils. It is some basic characteristic of a crab! Baselining this story to tamils sounds crap!
Karthik S. [ PREMIUM USER ]
Nov 04 2012 @ 01:12 pm
Well, Senthilrajan, you are right. It is sort of human -no - animal nature. Watch this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD06JUUXbSQI think that this is about jealousy!
Neo X.
Nov 05 2012 @ 06:37 pm
Every community has their bad apples.We Tamils have eveolved passed this. We are leaders in numorus fronts. This may have been true once, but NOT ANYMORE!!!
Maaran T.
Nov 06 2012 @ 12:27 pm
It is 100% true. Look what some folks are doing to the Ilayarajah show. 2 young tamil Enterpreneurs are trying doing a good job and some try to bring them down.
Karthik S. [ PREMIUM USER ]
Nov 18 2012 @ 05:17 pm
I totally agree with Neo X. But, honestly, crabs are too funny! Try buying live crabs...
Sundar G.
Jan 06 2013 @ 10:32 pm
It would be better if the story was kept in a generic way instead straightaway using TAMILS as such.. Every society has the pullers not only tamils! and this can't be a folk story!
Shelby J.
Jan 27 2013 @ 02:28 pm
I heard this about black people too. Like crabs in a pot, if one gets to the top the others will pull him back into the boiling water.This story is to remind us to support others
Amuda P.
Mar 10 2013 @ 04:19 pm
Well Said